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""Lake's research is fascinating--and impeccable. Earlier scholars have made clear that slander and its regulation were gendered but Lake takes this much farther by showing the immense significance of the need for 'special damage' to be shown for a complainant to succeed. She also reveals how this requirement traveled around the common-law world, being addressed differently in various locations. A rollicking and satisfying read!"" --Nancy F. Cott, Harvard University ""This is yet another triumph for legal historian Jessica Lake. With rich details, Lake shows how nineteenth-century women challenged law's indifference to sexual shaming and ultimately prevailed. Their struggles and triumphs help us understand the latest frontiers of gendered slander--deepfake sex imagery and cyber gender harassment--and law's potential to combat them."" --Danielle Keats Citron, University of Virginia School of Law

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Jessica Lake is Senior Lecturer at Melbourne Law School, in the University of Melbourne. She is the author of The Face that Launched a Thousand Lawsuits (2016).

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